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In response for your PayPal Inc. account security we have to report that your password may be is compromised. Your account is marked for too many successful logins last week It is more interesting that the hostnames are form different countries:

1. Paypal; like eBay; will never ask for your account info; password change; or other such things in an e-mail. Instead; it would be posted on the main page of their website; or have a link on their main website page to a help fourm/information site; run by them.

2. The link addresses themselves. If it doesn't start with "http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574891718&toolid=10001&campid=5336631220&customid=transformers&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2F" or "http://www.paypal.com/"; IT IS NOT REAL!! If you notice in that e-mail that JAF got; the link says "https://"; that extra 's' in there makes all the difference... and that's how they catch people. Anyone can mimic eBay or Paypal; it's not hard; but they can't have the exact same address as them...

Hopefully that helps anyone in the future avoid such scams...

...And I got the e-mail as well. Fortunately; I haven't used my Paypal account yet; and I already knew better...

MetalSamamon wrote:2. The link addresses themselves. If it doesn't start with "http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574891718&toolid=10001&campid=5336631220&customid=transformers&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2F" or "http://www.paypal.com/"; IT IS NOT REAL!! If you notice in that e-mail that JAF got; the link says "https://"; that extra 's' in there makes all the difference... and that's how they catch people. Anyone can mimic eBay or Paypal; it's not hard; but they can't have the exact same address as them...

Actually, it's the REAL address that'll have the https:// -- that means it's a secure page. The printed address in the message text can be entirely different from whatever it's actually hyperlinked to (you can hover your mouse over the link to see the real address in your e-mail client's status-bar or, at least, I can in Eudora).

Of course, the EASIEST way to distinguish JAF's e-mail from a real PayPal or eBay correspondence is the severely broken English.

MetalSamamon wrote:2. The link addresses themselves. If it doesn't start with "http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574891718&toolid=10001&campid=5336631220&customid=transformers&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2F" or "http://www.paypal.com/"; IT IS NOT REAL!! If you notice in that e-mail that JAF got; the link says "https://"; that extra 's' in there makes all the difference... and that's how they catch people. Anyone can mimic eBay or Paypal; it's not hard; but they can't have the exact same address as them...

Actually, it's the REAL address that'll have the https:// -- that means it's a secure page. The printed address in the message text can be entirely different from whatever it's actually hyperlinked to (you can hover your mouse over the link to see the real address in your e-mail client's status-bar or, at least, I can in Eudora).

Of course, the EASIEST way to distinguish JAF's e-mail from a real PayPal or eBay correspondence is the severely broken English.

Hmm...that's interesting. Every time I reported an e-mail to eBay (which I did several times) they told me to watch out for that specifically. Also, they told me to watch for ones with cgi.ebay.com stuff and aw.confirm...

Oh well; I was only trying to help...

But you are correct about the broken English...you'd think that they would be able to better than that

MetalSamamon wrote:Hmm...that's interesting. Every time I reported an e-mail to eBay (which I did several times) they told me to watch out for that specifically. Also, they told me to watch for ones with cgi.ebay.com stuff and aw.confirm...

It probably actually told you to watch out if it wasn't https://

If you go to ebay.com and click on "Sign in", the sign-in page is https://

MetalSamamon wrote:Hmm...that's interesting. Every time I reported an e-mail to eBay (which I did several times) they told me to watch out for that specifically. Also, they told me to watch for ones with cgi.ebay.com stuff and aw.confirm...

It probably actually told you to watch out if it wasn't https://

If you go to ebay.com and click on "Sign in", the sign-in page is https://

Perhaps...that was a couple of years ago when my dad and I were selling stuff together...

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